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1982ref. 147099N.p.: N.p. 1982. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a single manuscript ink annotation to the title page. An older Jewish filmmaker recalls the German woman who shielded him in her storage cellar during World War II and the doomed love that developed between the two. Set in Prague and Munich. Loose leaves ordered but unbound housed in a clear plastic sleeve. Title page present dated 1982 with credits for screenwriter ANITA MALLY and translator Harald O. Dyrenforth. 140 leaves with last page of text numbered 139. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine lightly toned. N.p. unknown
1951ref. 158754Rome: Titanus 1951. Vintage pressbook for the 1951 Italian film. Text and titles in Italian. An opera singer falls in love with a masked bandit known as the Count of Saint Elmo who robs the wealthy in order to fund his fight against the oppressive Italian government. Set in Sicily. 8.7 x 12.5 inches. Bi-fold. Near Fine with faint wear on the bottom edge. Titanus unknown
1966ref. 161479New York: Cambist Films 1966. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1966 late noir sexploitation film. One photograph with two provenance stamps on the verso one on a label obscuring a previous provenance stamp. A sex maniac is killing prostitutes in Manhattan and it's up to a rogue cop to catch him before he kills again. Set in and shot on location in New York City. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Grant US. Cambist Films unknown
1966ref. 172992London: Gala Film Distributors 1966. Vintage reference photograph from the 1966 UK release of the 1965 Swedish film. With a mimeo snipe attached to the verso. A film following a group of homeless children as they try to survive on the streets of Rio de Janeiro. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Set in and shot on location in Copacabana Brazil. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with faint emulsion irregularities. Gala Film Distributors unknown
1962ref. 162032N.p.: N.p. 1962. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1962 British film. A group of international beauty queens convert an English estate into a nudist colony. Shot on location in East Sussex and Dorset England. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light edgewear and some creasing at the far corners. N.p. unknown
1969ref. 161745N.p.: Distribpix 1969. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1969 film. Provenance stamps on the versos. When middle-aged Chandler finds himself impotent due to astrological reasons his young bride finds satisfaction elsewhere. Shot on location in New York. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus one with a wax pencil annotation in the bottom margin. Distribpix unknown
1967ref. 159200Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1967. Vintage reference photograph from the 1967 film. When two students are expelled for publishing an off-campus newspaper their professor resigns to advocate for youth movements and the use of LSD. The students eventually have a change of heart about their professor. Set in and shot on location in San Francisco. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. Weldon 1983. Columbia Pictures unknown
1986ref. 171135N.p.: Carson Productions Group 1986. Draft script for an unproduced film. Drama about a top basketball player's struggle with drug addiction. Screenwriter Arthur Heinemann worked as a producer and writer for television between the 1950s and 1980s writing numerous episodes of "Crime Photographer" "Suspense" "Studio One" "The United States Steel Hour" "Little House on the Prairie" and many others. Gray untitled Carson Productions Group wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Arthur Heinemann and producer Jim Thebaut dated 10/15/86. Carson Productions Group unknown
1990ref. 140555Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1990. Revised script for the 1992 film. A biography of famed baseball legend Babe Ruth who was born in Baltimore and given to an orphanage there by his father. He soon demonstrates his amazing hitting ability and adopted by a scout who has him play for the Orioles until he is sold to the Red Sox and consequently angers the owner and is sold to the Yankees for whom he helps win the 1932 World Series. He is soon pushed out of the spotlight by Lou Gehrig and eventually sold to the Braves. At the end a boy he met at the start of his career is all grown up and reminds him that Ruth is still his hero and that he's the best. Set in Baltimore New York Boston Pittsburgh Chicago shot on location in Chicago and California. Title page present dated November 22 1990 noted as Revised with credits for screenwriter John Fusco. 132 leaves with last page of text numbered 131. Later generation photocopy. Pages Very Good plus wrapper missing bound with two gold brads. Universal Pictures unknown
1979ref. 127312Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1979. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1979 film. Alan Arkin stars as Sheldon an unassuming dentist from New Jersey who on the eve of his daughter's wedding meets the groom's father Vince played by Peter Falk a strange mysterious and volatile man who in the next 24 hours draws him into madcap misadventures from New York to Central America. Remade in 2003 directed by Andrew Flemming and starring Michael Douglas and Albert Brooks. Shot on location in Mexico New Jersey New York and California. 27 x 41 inches. Folded as issued. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 823. Warner Brothers unknown
1945ref. 156172N.p.: N.p. 1945. Vintage program for the 1945 German film. Text and titles in German. After being released from prison for murdering his first wife a factory owner remarries but lives in fear of blackmail and the secret being exposed to his second wife. 7.25 x 10.5 inches. Bi-fold. About Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1959ref. 161565N.p.: President Films 1959. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1957 German film. Ingmar Zeisberg stars as Eva a girl who illegally leaves Germany for Denmark and is forced into working as a call girl under the threat of deportation. Set in Copenhagen Denmark. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. President Films unknown
1966ref. 133029Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1966. Vintage black-and-white reference photograph from the US release of the 1966 film noir. An underrated key film for director Penn something of an intellectual thriller made between two better known films "Mickey One" 1965 and "Bonnie and Clyde" 1967. Also very much an acting tour de force with early performances by Robert Duvall Jane Fonda and Robert Redford and an exceptional turn by Brando as a town sheriff facing painful choices. The film itself was the subject of am acrimonious struggle for creative control between the director and studio coincidentally making the production mirror the themes of upheaval of the social order and the fight for freedom within the film story. A story set in Texas shot partially on location there. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Spicer US. Columbia Pictures unknown
1952ref. 160124London: Ealing Studios / Lippert Pictures 1952. Vintage reference photograph from the 1952 film noir. A woman and her younger sister flee London after their father is murdered by a dictator. When she returns seven years later she comes across her old lover who is planning to kill that same dictator. Audrey Hepburn's first significant role. Set in London. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with some wear to the finish and some minor creasing along the edges. Grant UK. Selby UK. Selby US. Spicer UK. Ealing Studios / Lippert Pictures unknown
1955ref. 156163N.p.: Union Film 1955. Vintage program for the 1955 German-Austrian film. Text and titles in German. A former doctor's assistant is reduced to singing in a nightclub but returns to the medical profession when she meets and falls in love with a doctor who wants to give her a second chance. However a visit from her former lover who wants her to write illegal morphine prescriptions for him may spoil her opportunity. Shot on location in Burgenland and Vienna. 7.25 x 10.5 inches. Bi-fold. Very Good plus. Union Film unknown
1988ref. 169970Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1988. First Draft script for Season 1 Episode 4 of the 1989 television series. A spinoff of the 1985-1988 television series "Spenser: For Hire" which was based in turn on Robert B. Parker's long-running detective novel series. In this episode Hawk helps an old friend a defense attorney who has taken on a seemingly hopeless murder case. Originally aired on February 18 1989 on ABC. Shot on location in Washington DC. Red titled wrappers dated December 23 1988 and noted as First Draft on the front wrapper. Title page present dated December 23 1988 noted as First Draft with credit for screenwriter Jerome Coopersmith. 57 leaves with last page of text numbered 54. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown
1963ref. 161726N.p.: Alexander Beck Presentation 1963. Two vintage photographs one a borderless reference photo and one a studio still from the US release of the 1963 Swedish film. Both photographs with provenance stamps on the versos. A day in the life of three Swedish girls in Paris who work as nude models in an art school to make money. Shot on location in Paris. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus one with pinholes in the margins. Alexander Beck Presentation unknown
1972ref. 158075N.p.: N.p. 1972. Draft script for an unproduced film. A blood-drinking woman named Vampula attempts to become a silent screen star in the vein of Theda Bara with the help of a clueless casting agent. Orange titled wrappers with credit for screenwriter Barry Gaines. Title page present dated Oct. 22 '72 with credit for screenwriter Barry Gaines. 142 leaves with last page of text numbered 141. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with title page detached and a tide mark on the title page fore-edge wrapper Very Good plus bound with a silver prong. N.p. unknown
1960ref. 167563New Orleans: Mardi Gras Films 1960. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1961 film. The mistress of a Louisiana plantation raises her brother from the dead in a voodoo rite planning to use him to maintain control over the property. A Z-budget regional horror film shot on location in New Orleans and produced by Mardi Gras Films an independent studio that only financed one other movie-"Face of Fire" in 1959. Considered lost for many years the film was rediscovered and released on Blu-ray by Severin in 2023. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Mardi Gras Films unknown
1972ref. 150797Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1972. Seven vintage color studio still photographs from the 1972 film including five mounted as issued by the distributor on a presentation card. Based on the 1970 novel by Wally Ferris about two New York City cops who become involved in a bloody struggle between the Italian mob the Harlem mob and a pair of small-time crooks who have stolen thousands of dollars from both groups. Due to its setting in Harlem this underrated crime drama is often lumped with other Blaxploitation pictures of the era when in truth it belongs to the great pantheon of gritty violent police procedurals of the early 1970s-something of a New York City companion to Don Siegel's "Dirty Harry" released the year before. Set in Harlem shot on location in New York City. Cards 10 x 8 inches. Presentation card 14 x 11 inches. Color studio still photographs and presentation cards Very Good plus. Grant US. Parish and Hill 3. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Howard Blaxploitation Cinema p. 68 83-84. United Artists unknown
1984ref. 149810Munich: Bavaria Atelier 1984. Draft script for the fourth episode of the four-episode television miniseries "Vater und Sohne: Eine deutsche Tragodie" Father and Son: A German Tragedy which first aired November 12 1986 on Radiotelevisione Italiana here under the working title "Joint Venture." Text in English. The story of two wealthy German families-one family Jewish bankers the other founders of a chemical corporation-before during and after World War II. Although initially filmed in English the miniseries was first broadcast in its full eight hours on Italian and German television in 1986 and 1987 before being drastically edited to four hours for its 1988 debut on American television. Set and shot on location in Germany. Clear untitled plastic front wrapper and green rear wrapper i.e. generic report folder. Title page present dated March 14 1984 with credits for director Bernhard Sinkel. 151 leaves with last page of text numbered 149. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with a white prong binding. Bavaria Atelier unknown
1970ref. 161840N.p.: Argo Productions 1970. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1970 film. Photograph with two provenance stamps on the verso. After being denied consummation on his wedding night Jack consults with a sexual guidebook to try and make it with as many women as he can. Shot on location in California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Argo Productions unknown
1981ref. 127468Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1981. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1981 film. Bruce Dern a psychologically unstable tattoo artist becomes obsessed with a model at a photo shoot determined to use her body as a canvas for "his masterpiece." Shot on location in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. 27 x 41 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good with light creasing pinholes to the corners a cello-tape repair to the top center crease and a contemporary label obscuring the rating. Grant US. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1961ref. 162050Culver City CA: Olympic International Films 1961. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1961 film. Provenance stamps on the verso. An insurance investigator who is allergic to naked women searches for a stolen painting of a nude woman. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Olympic International Films unknown
1967ref. 154003N.p.: Trans American Films 1967. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1967 documentary film showing a nurse applying seaweed to a naked woman's back and legs. Layout annotations to the verso. A mondo documentary although many scenes were staged by the filmmakers presenting unusual torture methods across the world including ritual sacrifices by Satanists and pagans Nazi concentration camps medieval torture instruments and fertility rites. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Trans American Films unknown